(spoken) used when you do not know the answer to something. [
ex - Lord knows where I
left that bag.]
(informal) "
maybe God knows but I
don't know and no one else knows." Lord knows what the
government is, if it is not some individuals who have been put in
charge of certain activities. - Third
Dynamic and
Communication -High School Indoc Demo (6 July 1957) (colloquial) only someone more powerful than
man can possibly know or realize (usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something). Lord knows what a medical
doctor calls tonsils while he is dining with other medical doctors, see?
(informal) only someone more powerful than
man can possibly know or realize (usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something). Lord knows what a medical
doctor calls tonsils while he is dining with other medical doctors, see?
- Studying Data Assimilation (9 July 64) (informal) "
maybe God knows but I
don't know and no one else knows." (Usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something.) Lord knows where they are!
-The Failed Case (27 Oct. 64) (colloquial) same as
God knows. See
God knows in this glos sary. For Lord knows how long, we had
feudal and
dictatorial-
type gov ernments, and the peasant went with the land.
-The Auditor's Public (23 Aug. 55) (colloquial) only someone more powerful than
man can possibly know or realize (usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something).
(colloquial) same as
God knows. See
God knows in this glossary.
(informal) "
maybe God knows but I
don't know and no one else knows."
(informal) "
maybe God knows but I
don't know and no one else knows." (Usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something.)
(colloquial) only someone more powerful than
man can possibly know or realize (usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something). But the same
mechanism that you looked at with
regard to who you could tell what toithat same
mechanism,
blown up Lord knows how largeiis the
criminal. iOverts and
Withholds (1
Jan. 60)
(colloquial) only someone more powerful than
man can possibly know or realize (usually used to
express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something). But the same
mechanism that you looked at with
regard to who you could tell what to?that same
mechanism,
blown up Lord knows how large?is the
criminal. ?
Overts and
Withholds (1
Jan. 60)